Michael Copestake has been talking to the occupiers at Sheffield Cathedral Remarkably there are now 21 ‘Occupy’ camps dotted across the urban landscapes of Britain’s cities. The largest and most prominent is, of course, the one in London outside St Paul’s Cathedral, and one could be forgiven for not being aware of most of the others, ...
Three CPGB members, two also members of Communist Students attended the Friday June 17th rally organised by the Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance (SACA), where rebellious Labour MP John McDonnell was the keynote speaker. Over 150 people turned out, and it was one of those rare occasions when most of the Marxist left in Sheffield could be ...
On Thursday March 31st the Socialist Workers Party held a public meeting in the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, to lay out their perspectives for the direction of the workers' movement in the aftermath of the massive TUC-organised protest against cuts in London on March 26th. Around fifty people attended, about half of whom were evidently ...
On Saturday 12th March over 2,000 trade unionists, students, families and others turned out to protest the conference of the Liberal Democrats being held in Sheffield City Hall. The march and rally was organised by the Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance and the Socialist Workers Party-dominated Right to Work campaign. Last year, the Lib Dems were forced ...
Michael Copestake reports from the steel city Friday March 4th saw Sheffield City Council sitting in the town hall in order to vote through its package of budget cuts for the forthcoming year, to the tune of some £80 million. Outside the town, in the freezing cold, gathered a crowd consisting mostly of trade unions representing ...
Mike Copestake reports on the Oct 23rd demonstration against cuts organised by Yorkshire and Humber TUC The demonstration, which attracted over 200 people, had a good atmosphere despite pouring rain. Speakers at the rally were drawn from the local trade union movement and Labour party, the latter enjoying somewhat of a resurgence now it is no ...
No straightforward ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to open borders at Sheffield No2EU meeting, reports Mohsen Sabbagh On Thursday May 28 members of the Socialist Party in England and Wales held a public meeting for No2EU’s European election campaign in Sheffield. Heading the No2EU list for Yorkshire and Humberside is Keith Gibson, a GMB militant who was involved in ...
by Laurie Smith Alliance for Worker's Liberty members have been trying to smuggle their poisonous pro-imperialist politics into the Sheffield occupation for Gaza. For those not in the know, the AWL are a small Marxist group bureaucratically controlled by the dear leader Sean Matgamna and a close circle around him. Uniquely on the left, they refuse ...
By Laurie Smith, CS Sheffield Sheffield University became the 34th university to be occupied on Monday March 16 when students took control of two lecture theatres in the Hicks building right outside the Student's Union. The willingness of students to act in a radical fashion has been thoroughly inspiring, and this has been no different in ...
Laurie Smith, Communist Students candidate for President of Sheffield University Student's Union, reports on the elections now the results are in This year's election yielded few surprises. The campaigns of the right wing and the genuinely apolitical have consisted of the usual mixture of uncontroversial, token policies, appalling slogans and embarrassing gimmicks. Nods toward the environment ...
I'm Laurie Smith and I'm standing for President of Sheffield Student's Union 2009. I am a Marxist and a member of Communist Students, and I believe student politics needs to be about more than just personalities and the crushing bureaucracy they inhabit- no wonder hardly anyone votes! When standing before I have always made clear that ...
Communist Student Carey Davies has written this poem about the defunct cooling towers by the Tinsley Viaduct which greet people arriving in Sheffield. Proposals to turn the towers into an art installation or a theme park have been rejected and they are now scheduled for demolition. the tinsley towers i could watch them for hours magnificent and dour we ...
South Yorkshire Migrant and Asylum Actions Group have organised this public meeting for Tuesday June 3rd, 7.30pm at SADACCA, The Wicker, Sheffield. A variety of speakers from war torn parts of the globe will be speaking to highlight their plight and to help organise a defence of all those facing deportation. Speakers include: Aman Ali (Afghanistan), Bereket ...